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More than the gulf between these men keeps the papers mute. Pride and prejudice are deeply involved on both sides. The I.T.U. is a proud union, with roots buried deep in the 18th century, when some New York City compositors agitated for a pay increase to $1 a day. The I.T.U. printer considers his job a personal possession, like a car or a house-not a work privilege to be conferred and withdrawn by management...
...city's mute newspapers, 17,000 men, of a total work force of 20,000, were idle-and each week more than $3,000,000 in wages went down the drain. The papers themselves lost millions in ad and circulation revenues, took what comfort they could from strike-enforced economies. Merely by not publishing, for example, the nine dailies saved $300,000 a day in newsprint alone...
...nights of important debuts, nervous musicians often whisper backstage prayers that the critics, somehow, will fall deaf by curtain time. Last week the critics fell mute instead. New York's newspaper strike (see PRESS) left them effectively silenced, but to the artists who made their debuts, the quiet from critics' row seemed even gloomier than the usual whisper of mighty pencils...
...months away. But from his cell, Augstein blithely sent out orders to boost Der Spiegel's press run from the usual 500,000 to 850,000. The magazine also filed a complaint in Federal Constitutional Court against the government's highhandedness. In Bonn, Defense Minister Strauss kept mute...
Whatever the effect of the U.S. banking reforms under discussion last week (see above), they are unlikely to mute the small businessman's eternal lament: that a bank will lend him the money he needs only if he can show that he already has it. Nonetheless, in recent years the small businessman's plight has been significantly eased by a fast-rising breed of financiers who are called factors and operate on the theory that a company's best assets are its customers' debts...